Bucky Burgau capped an incredible head coaching career in
the spring of 2014 after 36 seasons as head coach of the Cobber
baseball team.

He is the all-time winningest coach in the history of Concordia
athletics. Burgau amassed 680 career wins as head coach for the
Cobbers. He has also posted 401 wins in the MIAC, making him the
winningest coach to ever coach in the conference.

Burgau's teams recorded at least 15 wins in
32 of the 36 seasons they played, and posted 20 wins in 13
different seasons. Burgau's best season came in 1995 when the team
went 30-8 and won the MIAC championship. In that season, the
Cobbers advanced to the NCAA playoffs and finished second in the
NCAA Midwest Regional.

When Burgau stepped aside in 2014 he was
12th on the list of wins by active NCAA Division III coaches. He
was also 25th in overall wins by any coach in Division III. Burgau
has earned the MIAC Coach of the Year honors on four occasions with
the most recent coming in 2010.

During his 36 years at the helm of the
Cobbers he coached six MIAC Most Valuable Player award winners,
seven All-Americans, 36 All-Region players and almost 100 MIAC
All-Conference honorees. Several of Burgau's former players have
gone on to play professional baseball and was one of the influences
on the professional career of former Cobbers, and three-time MIAC
MVP, Chris Coste who won the World Series as a
member of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Burgau was elected to the Concordia Athletic
Hall of Fame in 2007 making him one of the few coaches to ever be
inducted into the Hall of Fame while still being an active
coach.

Burgau came to Concordia in 1977 as the
Equipment Manager and Assistant Baseball Coach. He became Head
Baseball Coach at Concordia in 1979. Since then, Cobber teams have
been consistent contenders for the MIAC crown. The Cobbers won MIAC
titles in 1985, 1993 and 1995 and have finished in the league's
upper division in 19 of his 25 seasons at Concordia. His teams are
325-188 in MIAC competition. His Cobber coaching record through
2005 is 544-408-6.

Bucky grew up in Perham, Minnesota, where he
learned to love the game. In 1966 his team won the state amateur
title. After graduating from high school, Bucky played two years at
Fergus Falls Community College before enrolling at NDSU. He played
under NDSU coach Arlo Brunsberg, a Concordia graduate and member of
the Cobber Athletic Hall of Fame.

Upon graduation, Bucky took his first
coaching job with the Perham American Legion. In 1973, he became
head coach of the Moorhead American Legion Blues, where he
completed 27 years, compiling an 883-396 record. In 1988, his
Legion team won the state title, the Central Plains Regional title,
and finished fourth in the World Series Championship.

Bucky and his
wife, Penny, live in Moorhead. They have two daughters; Jennifer
and Rachel.